photorepairn.
/ˈfəʊtəʊrᵻˌpɛː/, U.S. /ˈfoʊdoʊrəˌpɛ(ə)r/, /ˈfoʊdoʊriˌpɛ(ə)r/ Biology.
= photoreactivation n.
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photoassimilation1922
photoinactivation1938
photoact1940
photoreactivation1949
photoaction1951
photoreversal1951
photoreactivability1952
photoreversibility1954
photoprotection1958
photorepair1967
1967 Mutation Res. 4 22 The impossibility of attaining complete photorepair of lethal and mutagenic damage raises the important question of whether there is a qualitative difference between damage which is photoreactivable and damage which is not.
1978 Nature 31 Aug. 891/1 Forward mutations at a variety of loci in rad 1–1 yeast are also subject to photorepair.
1993 Photochem. & Photobiol. 58 380/1 Photorepair is a simple DNA repair pathway that is mediated by DNA photolyase, which can repair only UV-induced pyrimidine dimers by use of visible light that is also included in solar radiation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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